Issue - meetings

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Corporate Resources which provided further information to clarify:

      i.        The application of the policy with regard to casual workers;

    ii.        The national provision for redundancies; and

   iii.        The County Council’s approach to redeployment.

following approval of the Policy by the Employment Committee at its meeting on 13 September 2018.  A copy of the report marked ‘Agenda Item 9’ is filed with these minutes.

Members were informed that those who had taken voluntary redundancy or received a redundancy payment were not able to return as a casual worker until the 12 month time period had elapsed, unless approval was granted in exceptional circumstances only. However, if this was the case, they may be requested to pay back all or a proportion of any severance payment received. Those who had been made compulsorily redundant were excluded from the re-engagement policy although the County Council’s approach was to minimise compulsory redundancies, and this was set out in further detail in the report.

RESOLVED:-

That the practical application of the agreed policy on the re-engagement of former employees, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be supported.